I was fired from a Ruby Tuesday for having a beard with no mustache in 2005. Egregious!

I was working at a Ruby Tuesday in Knoxville, TN, (the home of the chain) and was set up by the general manager to be fired for refusing to shave my facial hair. I was there for a year and a half and now all of a sudden they get a wild hair to start enforcing a policy that is not in writing anywhere. When I was hired, the policy stated "The personal care you take with your appearance realy shows! You should use good grooming practices every day, such as keeping your hair clean and neat, KEEPING FACIAL HAIR TIDY, etc...

This general manager didn't even have the guts to do it herself. She relied on an area supervisor to do her dirty work. My regular customers, of which there are many, are refusing to visit Ruby Tuesday ever again. This company should spend focus more of their time trying to fix there kitchen and management issues and not worry about this ridiculous rule which infringes on human rights.

I for one like that Ruby Tuesday has this policy.  Not everyone keeps their facial hair neat, and I for one would not like to find any kind of hair in my food....If you all get your way on this will you then be okay with hairnets over your facial hair when you work in food service.  GO RUBY TUESDAY!

Diane Gibson has no common sense and is an idiot!

My facial hair is very neatly groomed and always has been. Diane, your eyebrows have longer hair than my facial hair. Where do you work?

I sport two mustache's on any given day and will never enter the doors of a Ruby Tuesday again. Good day!

Good for you Larry...pass the word!

My husband is a forty-something burly man with hair all over his body including a mustache and goatee which he has had since puberty. He has also worked in the food service all his life. What's next, shaving or waxing the entire body to be able to hold or keep a job? It isn't just the food service employees that have to shave. It's the entire workforce of Ruby Tuesday including those working in an office position. It seems to be more about control than public health.

Hey MystreeLady,

You could not be more correct! It's all about control and the perverbial iron fist. They think they can micro manage restaurant employees. All they care about is the bottom line. My sales were always the highest, served more guests and had more parties ask for me but I guess that wasn't enough. All they really cared about is the power to do whatever they want. Please NEVER go into another Ruby Tuesday again...next they won't let hairy guests eat  there either.

Maybe all employees should shave their eyebrows too!

SONS OF LIBERTY TAKE NOTE!  We cannot let this offense go unchallenged!  Take to teh streets!  Riot!  We will not be silenced, nor can be be appeased with half piced appetizers!

When they came for the mustachioed, I did nothing since I had a goatee.

As a devout Devotant of Mahlegeth, I take special offsense at the narrow mindedness of the management of Ruby Tuesdays.  You need to look no further than the follwoing passage to see why:

"Beasts serve man, as laborers, as food, as entertainment. But while they are mere tools, one does not willingly ruin useful lever. Thus the beasts are not to be treated cruelly, nor in an ill manner. Thus Mahlegeth treats his thralls" Book of the Devourer 1:4-6

Just as we are all servant and repasts for the Infernal Glutton, the waitstaff are vassals of Ruby Tuesdays.  It is in their best interest to keep their vassals happy so that they work harder and taste better.  I just wish that they could keep an open mind and see that their decisions actually hurts their bottom line in both an economic sense and human sense.

By the Nine Tongues; Mahlegeth SLUMBERS

By the Nine Tongues; Mahlegeth STIRS

By the Nine Tongues; Mahlegeth RISES

By the Nine Tongues; HE WILL DEVOUR US ALL.

If you have a mustache why the heck are you eating at a Ruby Tuesdays anyways? Have you seen the burgers they prepare? No self respecting person with or without facial hair should be seen eating at an establishment such as this anyways.

I, for one, will continue to boycott there sad excuse for a resturant and pray for all  underprivliged mustached employees who are forced to work there, due to the economy, that they don't follow through with these totalateanistic demands. There are better jobs then this out there. Don't cave to the shaven man. :-(o

Hey fellow facial hair wearers,

I have been reading in the press about the boycott of Ruby tuesday. Wanted to see if someone wanted to organize the boycott more formally? There is a site at www.boycottowl.com that lets people organize boycotts and then promote them. Anybody at the AMI want to get this going?

I recently quit RT because of this policy. They told me I had to get rid of all facial hair even after I compromised to only keep my 'stache. The GM there was so confident I would come back within a month cleans haven, I almost hit him. My 'stache is part of my individuality and part of who I am. Unfortunately, because of the extra funds I used to get working there, I am tightening the belt even more. I really don't want to shave but I have to think of my family. Help me fight the man!!

On top of that, my managers all said when I was there, they had nothing to worry about because I was one of the strongest servers, one of the high sales waiters and was always on time for my shift. Now they can just bite it.

On a particular note, I know the person who made this rule and he always was a person who wanted to control everything about everything. He micro-managed the stores so much, they had multiple people quit.

My husband is a general manager for RT and while I miss his sexy goatee, nobody is forcing him to remain employed by RT.  He could work elsewhere if it were worth the fight,  as could anyone else who happens to be unhappy with the rule!

You know what forces him to work there? The current economy. And I happen to know for a fact if your husband works for RT, he has no facial hair at all because when they implemented the no 'stache rule, managers and above were the first ones to be told they had to abide by it. It's not a matter of being unhappy with the rule, it's a matter of a certain person making an arbitrary rule because the managers they have couldn't enforce the rules that were in place. I kept hearing about managers threatening to send people home if they weren't dressed properly but it never happened because they were afraid they weren't able to make the numbers they needed for that shift. It sucks because since they couldn't enforce the rules in place, other people (who were following the rules) had to suffer.